TRAVEL WATCH: October 4, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 13

Off the Shelf

ALSO IN TIME

Seek Enlightenment, Off the Beaten Path Since the dawn of Buddhism, pilgrims have worn the soles off their sandals visiting the religion's hallowed sites Trend Spotting Not a fusty old guidebook, but a deck of cards, 53 of them, as user-friendly for visitors to Hong Kong as it is for residents Detour Cabbages & Condoms is no ordinary restaurant chain: it serves prophylactics in the place of after-dinner mints Off the Shelf Become the complete Richard Branson-branded traveler by picking up one of his new Virgin City Guides Web Crawling Doug Dyment's site is an obsessive's look at the joys of traveling light Hot Tip The world's top gymnasts will bounce, leap and vault their way into Tianjin, China, this fall for the World Gymnastics Championships

In Search Of Adventure
Edited by Bruce Northam and Brad Olsen
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Have you ever done the Mongolian Death Trot? Made passionate love to a stranger on a Greek beach? Played naked Frisbee with the natives of New Guinea? The writers assembled in In Search of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology have done all that and more. This collection of travelers' tales pops the top off objective travel writing and simply swims in the muck and mess of real life on the road. Editors Northam and Olsen have teamed up to bring together wild stories by the likes of Tim Cahill, Robert Young Pelton and others who live up to the adage that travel writers fear boredom more than death.